TY - JOUR AU - Rajan,Raghuram G. AU - Zingales,Luigi TI - The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 8177 PY - 2001 Y2 - March 2001 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8177 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8177.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Raghuram Rajan Booth School of Business University of Chicago 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Tel: 773/702-4437 Fax: 773/702-0458 E-Mail: raghuram.rajan@ChicagoBooth.edu Luigi Zingales Booth School of Business The University of Chicago 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Tel: 773/702-3196 Fax: 773/834-2081 E-Mail: luigi.zingales@ChicagoBooth.edu AB - Major technological, regulatory, and institutional changes have made finance more widely available in recent years, amounting to a bone fide 'financial revolution'. In this article, we focus on the impact the financial revolution has had on the way firms are (or should be) organized and managed, and on the policy consequences. ER -